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I have two legitimate additional accounts - Bencherheavy and Bencherlite (AWB).


Archives
1 February 2007 onwards 1 August 2007 onwards 27 November 2007 onwards 29 February 2008 onwards
About archives • Edit this box

1 Kurylewicz
2 6/4 DYK
3 Barnstar
4 Admin noticeboard
5 Llewelyn Lewellin
6 Response
7 Category:Albums produced by Kyle Lehning
8 Thank you
9 Thanks for the tips=
10 Kennedy CFR
11 defunct categories
12 CFD suggestion
13 Long overdue greetings

[edit] Kurylewicz

Thanks, he is notable after all and deserves an article here. Regards. Tymek (talk) 21:01, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 6/4 DYK

On 4 June 2008, Did you know? was updated with facts from the articles Edward Edwards (cleric), Griffith Griffith, Owen Owen (school inspector), Richard Richards (MP), Robert Roberts (cleric), Thomas Thomas (cleric), and Thomas Llewellyn Thomas, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Bedford ^Pray 00:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks - I took the liberty of fixing the message to list all seven articles that made it in one hook! Bencherlite^Talk 01:05, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Haha, brilliant work on all seven Welshmen! Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 01:16, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		The Surreal Barnstar
		For having seven different DYKs on a single hook, I award you a Surreal Barnstar. Keep up the good work. Chris (talk) 02:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Admin noticeboard

Replied to your post. Lra drama 10:50, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

...and again. Lra drama 11:07, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

It's OK I can see your concerns. The 6 month block is fine. I'm glad we were able to sort this out quickly and efficiently. Thankyou. It is what working on Wikipedia should be like all the time. Best wishes, Lra drama 11:32, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Lradrama has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Lra drama 11:32, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Llewelyn Lewellin

was also Jesus, Oxon. And surely some of these made it too - William Williams. -- roundhouse0 (talk) 12:32, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Response

LOL, not exactly. I just got a bit bogged down in the ship articles after doing the "Unique United States Navy transports" category, which included a whole pile of nightmarish ship articles like this. So I thought I'd give the ship articles a rest for a while.

Since then, I just happened to notice in my travels that there was no article on William G. James and wrote a quick article on him. But then I started to realize what a neglected area Australian composers and musicians are! Even the existing articles are mostly stubs or else pretty untidy. So I've done a couple of articles on composers I'm familiar with, and now I'll probably do at least a few more. I guess this is what they mean by "systemic bias" - there are obviously not too many wikipedians interested in classical music :) Gatoclass (talk) 10:19, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! That could prove very handy. In fact, it might have already. The Grove wouldn't have an entry on Dulcie Holland would it? I was unable to find her birth date from my available sources. Gatoclass (talk) 10:50, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I guess the Grove isn't quite as comprehensive as it purports to be! Never mind, I'm sure it will come in handy at some stage. Thanks for taking the trouble :) Gatoclass (talk) 07:33, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Albums produced by Kyle Lehning

Since you deleted this category as being empty, could you please get rid of Category:Albums produced by James Stroud and Category:Albums produced by Robert Ellis Orrall as well? Those CFDs have both been open more than 7 days and the categories are empty. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 11:09, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

These 3 are empty because TenPoundHammer emptied them (using Hotcat, so no explanatory edit summaries) on 4 June while the cfds were ongoing. -- roundhouse0 (talk) 11:17, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

That was per the suggestion of another editor on IRC. He suggested that since the categories were very unlikely to survive AfD that I might as well clear them out and save a step for an admin. Note also that neither Kyle Lehning nor James Stroud have pages. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 13:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Deleted per consensus at each of those discussions. However, pre-emptive emptying of categories is not necessary and can in some circumstances be seen as highly inappropriate. Edit summaries are rarely an optional extra on Wikipedia anyway. Bencherlite^Talk 21:48, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about the lack of edit summaries; I did use HotCat after all. The pre-emptive emptying was per suggestion of another editor, like I said. I'll be more careful about that. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 18:59, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Hello! I just wanted to say "Thank You" for taking out the vulgar user name I reported earlier (I don't feel comfortable repeating it). I appreciate your work. Ecoleetage (talk) 23:56, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the tips=

sarindam7 (talk) 09:15, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kennedy CFR

Nothing personal meant by the nom. I hope you didn't take it as a criticism. Otto4711 (talk) 09:26, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] defunct categories

Hi, thanks for deleting Cat:American Cajun fiddlers. There are a couple other categories I created and have now emptied (I was making genre-by-nationality categories, but found that given the articles currently available it really isn't necessary. I should have looked through them first, clearly- it's a bit embarrassing)... I was going to wait around a couple days and then go through the deletion board, but maybe you can just delete them? They are

Category:American old-time fiddlers
Category:American country fiddlers‎
Category:American blues fiddlers
Category:American Creole fiddlers‎
Category:German Cajun fiddlers
Category:German bluegrass fiddlers — eitc h 17:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. There are a lot of fiddler stubs out there, so I was looking at the stubs sections of the Project - if you're looking for a not-exactly-the-same-as-categorizing-musicians project check out the alarming thing I found: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musicians/Stubs#Extant stub categories not in the list. — eitc h 16:01, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CFD suggestion

I see that you recently closed the CFD on Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_May_16#African-American_categories and deleted a bunch of categories pursuant to consensus. However, you did not check the destination categories. At least three of these destinations already existed -- Category:African American actors, Category:African American history, and Category:African American singers, but they contained {{category redirect}} templates pointing them to the same title with a hyphen. You didn't remove these now-invalid redirects, so when RussBot did its regular weekly run today, it duly started emptying out these categories and moving all the contents back to the old, deleted titles. My suggestion is that, when deleting a category as part of a rename, you check the rename destination and make sure that it has the appropriate content. --Russ (talk) 10:15, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Long overdue greetings

Bencherlite, just stopping by to say hi, it's been a while since you first greeted me and created the Wadham alumni user box for me! – ukexpat (talk) 16:38, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

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